As an ardent student of photography and devotee of the classic black and white photographs by the mid-century masters I practice the medium with an eye toward graceful design. I view each frame as a discreet design project with the objectives of elegance, balance and precision.
More images may be seen at www.steveimmelphotography.com.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Postcards from my post

As my California safari wound down last August and I was
Jonesing to get back home I crammed three legs of my long look back into a
single day. That’s not what I would
recommend but, hey, Oakland, San Leandro and another trip to Fort
Ord were left and we do what we have to do.

Fort Ord, you may recall, is where I spent the summer of
1960 in the deprivations of Basic Training in this man’s Army. It’s also the location at which I took
several hundred photographs in April about half of which I erased in a fit of, shall we
say, stupidity. So Fort Ord would have to be the last event in my photo triathlon. I am, if nothing else, a highly
trained triathlete.

All of the basic training barracks were located on a slight hill
looking down on the rest of the base with a glimmer of the Pacific visible
behind them. Frankly, I didn't remember
the sea of two story housing units or that they covered the entire hillside. C company of which I was a proud member is really the only one that I
recall. Such was the single mindedness of my warriorly efforts. Either that or copious quantities of 3.2 percent beer.

This shot of the sneakers, the empty IPA and the military handout entitled "Starting a new job on the right foot" is darkly ironic.

Horse Feathers

About Me

As an ardent student of the mid-century masters I practice photography with the objectives of graceful design, acuity, tonal range and craft. I print full frame as originally composed in the viewfinder.
I have had dozens of exhibitions across the United States, in Canada and Europe. My work is represented by Wilder Nightingale Fine Art in Taos and the Taos Historic Museums.